Writer-director Natalie Morales' Language Lessons, which played Outfest LA 2021 on Saturday August 14th, is an absorbing two-hander starring Morales as Cariño, a Costa Rica-based Spanish teacher who has been hired to give California-dwelling Adam (Mark Duplass, who's also co-writer) 100 weekly lessons as a surprise birthday gift from his husband. Initially taken aback by... Continue Reading →
Award-winning artist, performer, musician, and filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to Outfest this month with his deeply personal feature North By Current, following its world premiere at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, where it was nominated for both Best Documentary and a Teddy Award. The raw, unflinching portrait of his Mormon family reeling from tragedy... Continue Reading →
North by Current will show as part of POV’s 34th season, broadcasting on Monday, November 1st at 10 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) and streaming online at pov.org. The film will be available to stream until December 31st, 2021. Angelo Madsen Minax's remarkable documentary feature North By Current—which world premiered at the 2021 Berlin... Continue Reading →
Over two decades after her award-winning documentary Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities premiered at the 1999 Berlinale, filmmaker Monika Treut returns to the festival to premiere Genderation, which sees her reconnecting with the pioneering trans, gender-diverse, and sex positive subjects she encountered in San Francisco in the late 90s for that film. With many... Continue Reading →
The opening credits sequence of actor and podcast host Dasha Nekrasova's directorial debut The Scary of Sixty-First sets the tone for an Upper East Side contemporary horror, all creepy gargoyles and Eli Keszler's beautifully disquieting score. That unsettling feeling sustains throughout the film, which from the first scene is established as a pitch-dark comedy, likely... Continue Reading →
"Words don't come easy" sings F. R. David on his 1982 Euro-hit Words, which fittingly plays over the end credits of Jacqueline Lentzou's feature debut Moon, 66 Questions, which screened at the virtual Berlin International Film Festival yesterday. As the film opens Artemis (Sofia Kokkali) speaks freely with the stranger sitting next to her on a flight... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Natalie Morales' Language Lessons, which received its world premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival today, is an absorbing two-hander starring Morales as Cariño, a Costa Rica-based Spanish teacher who has been hired to give California-dwelling Adam (Mark Duplass, who's also co-writer) 100 weekly lessons as a surprise birthday gift from his husband.... Continue Reading →
